heritor
Example Sentences
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His principal heritor was the Lord Elphinstone of the time, and unfortunately the minister and the peer were not on good terms, and always ready to annoy each other by sharp sayings or otherwise.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
For though she was heritor of a life full-blooded and undisciplined, every fiber of her was clean and pure.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
And, after some farther concerted arrangements, the heritor left his affianced, and proceeded to Cauldshouthers, to report to Grizelda what he had achieved.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
Among the persons drawn to Baldarroch by these occurrences were the heritor, the minister, and all the elders of the Kirk, under whose superintendence an investigation was immediately commenced.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
